Jul 10 2008
July Meme
I’m working on that stupid-ass flowchart again (even though I thought I had a tiny reprieve while someone decided if five = five or if five, does indeed, equal ten), so I am stealing this meme from Mrs. Squirrel.
Teh Rulz:
- Pick up the nearest book
- Open to page 123
- Find the 5th sentence
- Post the next three sentences
- Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you
Well, hm. The nearest book happens to be that one over there on my sidebar, because I’m mailing Krissa the copy I have here for participating in my little give-away. I’m also sending one to TxPoppet AND one to Shelly. Because they helped me pimp “You’re Not the Only One” - the book that helps WarChild. (Yes, you counted right. I bought 1 for me and 3 for others. That means I’ve contributed to WarChild 4 times! See how shiny my halo is?!)
Annnnnyway.
Then, I was checking to see if I could, legally, post 3 sentences without incurring the wrath of Phillip Copland who wrote the post on page 123. And I can’t. Not without his previously written approval. (In writing!) So, I’m going to pass on that one because, y’know, I want to get this post written today. (By the way, that’s not just Phillip’s rule. So don’t go blaming Phillip. I bet he would have granted permission, but he’s in the U.K. and it’s 9:00 p.m. there right now, and he may be asleep. Or in a pub. But not checking email.)
Annnnnnywwwwayyyy.
So, I’m going to pick another book.
I sit in the window seat, with the newspaper in my lap. We are about halfway through the crossword. My attention has drifted.
From “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger. This book is also sitting nice and close because it’s time for me to re-read it.
Now, that last rule? I can’t do part of it. Because no one tagged me. And because I don’t like doing things partway, I’m not going to tag anyone either. BUT! if you haven’t done this one yet, feel free.
—- Because we all have those days when moving boxes around on a flowchart absorbs every brain cell that the husband/children/pets/parents and vodka haven’t managed to kill yet. —-
HOT LOVE
I don’t like tagging people either so I’m going to post mine right here. Because I don’t mind, not only doing things halfway, but making up rules as well!
“This is probably a stupid question,” Miller resumed, “but we ought to fill in the blanks. Anyone got any firearms?”
There was a pause.
The Mist by Stephen King
Dingo’s last blog post..Better than Court TV
If he’s doing anything, it’s probably watching Eastenders (if it’s on). Or Big Brother.
Solomon’s last blog post..The “Things I’m Grateful For” July contest - Starts July 1st!
Done!
Kim’s last blog post..A meme
I did this meme a while ago so I’ll do it again here. And as it turns out, I’ve chosen the romance novel on my bedside table so I WILL talk dirty to you:
His body was already responding to the sight of her. It had been a week, but it seemed like yesterday when he had made love to her, mainly because he had replayed each and every detail in his nightly dreams. He couldn’t close his eyes at night without reliving the time his body had been connected to hers, thrusting in and out of her and -
From Cole’s Red Hot Pursuit by “USA Today Best Selling Author” Brenda Jackson.
I’ve been reading romance novels for the past couple of weeks and Hooo-Weee!
SarahO’s last blog post..Welcome to My Ersatz Twit Blog!
BUT… I am sitting in the shade with my laptop. Squinting at the screen. The nearest book is inside my camper. It would require movement from me at the moment to get to it.
I’d do this. Really I would. But I spent all day with a specification, a proposal, and several cranky program managers (you know THEM) and my body refuses. to. move. Mostly because I’d have to put down the rum.
And I saved WW points for that rum!
Chris’s last blog post..Green stuff
You need more vodka. And gosh, I hate flowcharts, too!
Nearest book: Sherry Turkle (ed), Evocative Objects: Things we Think With.
“He also inserted a wooden wedge, perhaps also of ash or oak, under the rawhide binding along the flat side of the axe head.”
This is from an essay by David Mitten called “The Axe Head”
And now get yourself more vodka.
charlotte’s last blog post..Cheeseburger
Did someone say vodka? I am so ready for some of that goodness!
DirtyLaundryDiva’s last blog post..Should we shut your superficial ass out of our lives or what?
OKAY - - here we go:
Troll had been named Troll because Terry No-Come said he looked like he lived under a bridge.
“Oh, we don’t want to on in there,” said Donna. “I just wondered where it was.” She did a double take. “Hardbar, is that a tear?”
From The Real Animal House, by Chris Miller. It’s a book of stories from his fraternity days at Dartmouth that inspired the movie Animal House.
Liz J in Central Illinois’s last blog post..24 Years Ago . . . (pt. 1)
I loved Time Travelers Wife. One of my favorites of the year with Water for Elephants being the other.
Shania’s last blog post..The Sound of Silence
That was a great book…
magpie’s last blog post..Nana Star
Is SarahO reading “Memoirs of the Hotfessional”?
Hyphen Mama’s last blog post..Pet Peeve Thursday, And a Public Service Announcement
I don’t have a blog, so sentences here:
“Dukes of Truth and Loss are most often changelings who did not hesitate to kill their fetch after they found that it had been living their life. These Lost see the removal of fetches as a useful service for both the people abducted by the fae and their families back in the mortal world. A few members of this order are instead changelings who either had no fetch or found that killing it was either impossible or irrelevant.”
From Lords of Summer, by Stephen DiPesa, Jess Hartley, Malcolm Sheppard, John Snead, and Charles Wendig.
It’s a sourcebook for the role-playing-game Changeling: The Lost.
Hmmm…Nearest book? Like, a “real” book? And not a “kid’s” book? LOL
That would be a copy of the Collected works of Jane Austen.
pg 123 is from Sense and Sensibility
“It is a melancholy consideration. Born to the prospect of such affluence! I cannot conceive a situation more deplorable.”
I LOVES me some Jane Austen!
I’m one of the few who really didn’t like that book. I’m a sucker for a HEA, and that one was a bit icky.
I’m going to peek at twitter now.
Lyvvie’s last blog post..Hard choices.
OH - I should play too…wait a sec…Closest book is Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly which is one of The Husband’s favourites (I’m not as sci-fi as I could be)
“Ah” Said Miss Mab, and reaching out, took Jenny’s small, scratched, boyish brown hands in her own. For a long moment she looked into her eyes. As if the small, cold fingers clasping hers stirred the jewel heap of her dreams, Jenny felt the gnome woman’s mind probing at her thoughts, as she had probed Gareth’s, seeking to see the shape of her essence.”
Of course I choose a book by a comma fetishist.
Lyvvie’s last blog post..Hard choices.
“goodness gracious it is a talking sausage!”
page 123 and sentence 5 of 1001 cool jokes.. It was the closest book, Oh dear i hadn’t put it away when i was trying to find a silly joke to cheer Dawn up..
cheers kim xxx
frogpondsrock’s last blog post..Which shoes to choose mmmm????
Oh that is such a great book! I loved it.
I won’t do this because the books I am reading right now are all cookbooks, so they wouldn’t be very interesting.
Oh, and I have to make some more lemonade for this weekend….
Jacki’s last blog post..Ugliest Mug Shot Ever
The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of my most favorite books. It might be at the top of the list. I cannot wait for the movie!
Kristabella’s last blog post..The Extent Of My Political Discussion
“Or maybe most Americans just don’t know how much of their daily commerce is done with European-owned firms.
The wealth and the spirit of the enterprise that are pushing the European investment in American business reflect a transformation of the business climate that has made the New Europe a key player in the new high-tech economy. You can see and feel this palpable change in any number of university towns–Cambridge, England, or Lund, Sweden, or Tampere, Finland, or Brussels or Munich or Milan–where medieval campuses are finding room for new research laboratories in computing, communication, and biotechnology.”
The United States of Europe by T.R. Reid
Thanks for directing me to the longest sentence in the book — one which has punctuation errors no less. When stringing together a list of items, you typically use commas. However, semi-colons are used when the words between the punctuation pauses include comma breaks. It would also exclude the redundant use of the word “or. Thus, the city list should read: “Cambridge, England; Lund, Sweden; Tampere, Finland; or Brussels or Munich or Milan”